Static IP generation on a cloned_vm resource

[tmyoungjr]

I'm currently using cloud-init for my VMs. I've created a template in PVE and I can use that to manually clone in the GUI.

Using this provider I'm attempting to do the same, however my hang up is on specifying static IPs.

I can create all of my VMs via terraform - but the IP is left empty.

If I throw this in my main.tf

network = { net0 = { bridge = "vmbr0" model = "virtio" ip_address = "10.0.65.11${count.index + 1}" } }

I get no errors via terraform plan - but I also have no IPs set on my cloned VMs.

I'm probably making this more complicated than it needs to be.

[bpg-dev]

Hey @tmyoungjr 👋🏼

I'm pretty sure your config excerpt is incorrect, as it doesn't match the schema. Take a look at https://bpg.sh/docs/guides/cloud-init/

The static IP is part of the initialization block. In your excerpt it's assigned to the network attribute.

See https://bpg.sh/docs/guides for more examples, but honestly, you may not need a template per se if your source OS is Linux and you just need to install a couple of extra packages and run a few configuration commands. The cloud-init example above does just that — no template, but full initial configuration out-of-the-box using cloud-init.

[tmyoungjr]

that makes total sense and I figured I was over complicating it! i'll give this suggestion a run - thank you!